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+[[!meta title="Bulding MCabber from Sources"]]
+
+A short explanation on how to use Mercurial to keep up-to-date with the latest
+development version of mcabber. More info on Mercurial can be found on
+<http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/>.
+
+[[!toc]]
+
+# Download
+
+First, clone the Mercurial reporitory:
+
+    % hg clone http://mcabber.com/hg/ mcabber-hg
+
+# Prepare
+
+Go into the `mcabber` directory, and build the `configure` script (you will need
+the _autotools_ software installed):
+
+    % cd mcabber-hg/mcabber
+    % ./autogen.sh
+
+Now you can use the configure script, as usual. You can use `--enable-hgcset` to
+add the Mercurial changeset to mcabber's version string.
+
+    % ./configure --enable-hgcset
+
+If you want to install in your own home-directory instead of system-wide, append
+`--prefix=$HOME`:
+
+    % ./configure --enable-hgcset --prefix=$HOME
+
+# Compile
+
+To compile the source code, run:
+
+    % make
+
+And to install it (you will probably need to be root to do this if you are doing
+a system-wide installation):
+
+    % make install
+
+# Update
+
+If you want to update mcabber source code later, just pull from the repository,
+update and compile again:
+
+    % hg pull -u
+    % make
+    % make install
+